chokey
Americannoun
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chokeys
plural
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a jail cell or similar place of confinement.
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Indian English. a police station; a customs or toll station.
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of chokey
C17: from Anglo-Indian, from Hindi caukī a shed or lockup
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He's ugly and huffy, and smoky, and stuffy, And pokey, and chokey, and black as my hat.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 by Various
"So he must have been kidnapped or something after all, sir, or he would be in chokey now."
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
The conclusion: Three of the ring-leaders of the mob had been pounced upon, and were safe in chokey.
From The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni
The place was very hot and chokey, and I only stayed long enough to hear that the discourse abounded in the cloudy metaphors and vague technicalities of Calvinistic theology.
From California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts by Henry Vizetelly
Berlin offers you tea nowadays, but it is never good, and instead of freshly cut bread and butter they have horrid little chokey biscuits flavoured with vanilla.
From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
Often the cost of installing the video equipment has to be recovered first, meaning that some chokeys will see no cash from video calls for years to come.
From Economist ● Jan. 22, 2015
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